What does your keyboard Windows logo do?

Sometimes I get tired of mousing around. It is good to know about keyboard shortcuts which will save you moving your cursor around and clicking when a couple of keyboard presses will do it. A complete list can be found at:

Personally I have only recently found that the group of "Microsoft Natural Keyboard Keys" is useful. To use these you have to have a Windows keyboard with the Windows Logo key next to each Alt key (near the spacebar).

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

Windows Logo: Start menu

Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box

Windows Logo+M: Minimize all

SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all

Windows Logo+F1: Help

Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer

Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders

Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop

CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer

CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)

Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons

Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box

Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item. (The Application key is between the right side Windows Logo and the Ctrl key.)

Another useful one is
ALT + TAB which cycles between open applications.

Don't be put off by the long list. Don't be afraid to try them out. You might want to print out part of it and mark the ones that might be useful. So when your wrist gets tired, try some of these many shortcuts.

February 5, 2010

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